The Leland Stanford Junior University, often called Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university next to Palo Alto in California, in the middle of Silicon Valley, about 37 miles (60 km) southeast of San Francisco and about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San José, in Santa Clara County. Leland and Jane Stanford opened the university on 1 October 1891. They named the university after their son, Leland Stanford Jr., who died at young age.
Stanford UniversityCampus from aboveMottoDie Luft der Freiheit wehtTypePrivateEstablished1891[1]Endowment$17.2 billion[2]PresidentJohn L. HennessyStudents17,256Undergraduates7841[3]Postgraduates9688[3]LocationStanford, California, United StatesCampusSuburbanNicknameCardinalMascotCardinalWebsitewww.stanford.edu Not to be confused with Samford University.With one of the largest university campuses in the United States, the university includes the Schools of Engineering, Law, Medicine, Education, Business, Earth Sciences, and Humanities and Sciences. Stanford also hosts volunteer programs and a teaching hospital.
Contents 1 History 2 Campus 3 Student Body 4 People who worked at or graduated from Stanford University 5 Related pages 6 References History changeLeland Stanford Jr. died in Europe in 1884. His parents, Leland and Jane Stanford, were rich and influential Californians. They chose to turn a farm they already owned into a large university as a memorial to their curious son.[5] Stanford had early trouble, as the school ran low on money, and was hurt by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
Herbert Hoover, who later became the US President, helped the school improve its operations, and later university leaders pushed students and alumni to develop the surrounding area. By the 1950s, cities around Stanford University were filling with technology companies, starting what became Silicon Valley.
Campus changeStanford has many special areas. In honor of Stanford graduate and US president Herbert Hoover, Stanford hosts a large think tank and archive called the Hoover Institution. Many former students, like the founders of HP, donate lots of money and he buildings named after them. A large radio telescope called "The Dish" sits on the hills above Stanford.
Student Body changeStanford has about 7,000 undergraduate students, and a larger number of students working on advanced degrees.[6] Few high school students who apply to Stanford are accepted - over the last several years, only four out of every hundred students who applied were offered a spot.[source?]
People who worked at or graduated from Stanford University changePeople who graduated from Stanford University are:
Nicolas Sadirac (1989), founder and current head of the École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies[7]People who he worked at Stanford are:
Mary Sheldon Barnes[8] Related pages change Volunteers in Asia - American non-profit organization closely related to Stanford References change Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stanford University. ↑ "Stanford University History". Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2008-01-29. Retrieved 2007-04-26. ↑ Sturrock, Carrie (October 1, 2006). "Well-funded: Stanford's endowment purse grows fatter". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-04-26. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Stanford Facts 2007". Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2007-04-26. ↑ "Stanford Facts 2007 (The Stanford Faculty)". Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2007-04-26. ↑ Stanford, ©Copyright Stanford University; California 94305. "A History of Stanford". Stanford University. Retrieved 2020-07-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) ↑ University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305. "Stanford Common Data Set | University Communications". ucomm.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) ↑ Nicolas Sadirac (Epitech) : «Un diplôme d’informatique chinois aura une très grande valeur» Archived 2013-10-17 at the Wayback Machine (in French) ↑ "Mary Sheldon Barnes Papers". Sophia Smith Collection. Smith College. 2001. Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 13 Aug 2011.This short article about the United States can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.